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What does ingrown mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ingrown? Here's what it means.

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  1. That has grown inwards or abnormally towards (part of the body)
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While this can be effective for solving all sorts of software troubles, it's like amputating someone's leg to fix an ingrown toenail.
I had an ingrown toenail and I went to the foot doc to get it taken care of.
Plus there's the ingrown hair and stuff like inflamed follicles that may come if it's left without maintenance.
Shaving, of course, is what causes ingrown hairs, which is what you are mistaking as zits.
The change from that ingrown concern can come when something outside the self influences the self to rethink.
It is an ingrown tradition, and anything that messes with it is a reason for fighting.

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